‘Hen’ Review: A Resilient Chicken Flies the Coop, Over and Over, in an Unexpectedly Stirring Survival Story

‘Hen’ Review: A Resilient Chicken Flies the Coop, Over and Over, in an Unexpectedly Stirring Survival Story hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 14, 2026 3:13am PT ‘Hen’ Review: A Resilient Chicken Flies the Coop, Over and Over, in an Unexpectedly Stirring Survival Story Like ‘Au Hasard Balthasar’ for the humblest of barnyard animals, Hungarian director György Pálfi’s film is a remarkable technical and logistical feat, but so emotionally involving you almost forget to notice. By Guy Lodge Plus Icon Guy Lodge Film Critic @guylodge Latest ‘Prima Facie’ Review: Cynthia Erivo Brings Conviction, but Not Necessarily a Conviction, to an Impassioned but Clunky Legal Drama 20 hours ago ‘Heartland’ Review: Jessica Chastain Rocks a Stetson and a Swagger for a Soapy Nashville Noir 1 day ago ‘Ebenezer’ Review: Johnny Depp Scowls His Way Through a Spookily Atmospheric but Redundant ‘Christmas Carol’ Retread 2 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Why did the chicken cross the road?

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In “ Hen ,” the answer is, as ever, to get to the other side. But the stakes are a little higher and more urgent than that in György Pálfi unassuming marvel of a creature feature: When its gallinaceous protagonist is forced across a busy highway, it’s because a hungry fox is very much on her tailfeathers.

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That hunter and prey in this scenario are both played by real live animals is a large part what makes “Hen” riveting: Made without CGI, with a predominantly non-human ensemble that includes eight fowl playing the lead role alone, it’s a sustained cinematic feat of fauna-wrangling unlike any other. But it’s not the miraculous novelty of the production that crosses your mind as you’re watching: In the moment, your heart pounds for that poor, dumb but surprisingly resourceful chicken, and you lock completely into her simultaneously small and vast survival saga.

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No life form is given precedence over another, as “Hen” limns a tense dog-eat-dog-eat-bird ecosystem — the world we all know and struggle through, just from a different vantage point. The hen in question remains nameless and voiceless from beginning to end — though the birds playing her all get star billing by name in the closing credits.

(Eszti, Szandi, Feri, Enci, Eti, Enikő, Nóra and Anett, to give them their due.) Pálfi has little interest in directly anthropomorphic storytelling, and while his film is a rather eventfully scripted fiction, it aims for documentary-style naturalism and spontaneity. The obvious recent comparison point is Jerzy Skolimowski’s Oscar-nominated donkey odyssey “EO,” minus that film’s more expressionistic flourishes; Robert Bresson’s “Au Hasard

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